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3 Sheets-Sheet 2. J. J. BISEL. CLOTHES DRIER.

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No. 548,507. Patented Oct. 22, 1895.

Witnesses:

Inventor.

Attorney.

ANDREW EVGRKNAMRHOTG'UTHRWLSMINGWKDJ).

JOSEPH J. BISEL, OF PHILADELPHIA,

PATENT FFlCE.

PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO FREDERICK T. FAOEY, 0F SAME PLACE.

CLOTHES-DRIER.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 548, 507, dated October 22, 1895.

Application filed April 17, 1395.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LJOSEPH J. BISEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Briers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to an improved clothesdrier, especially of the class in which the drier is designed to be hung on a wall.

One object of my invention is the production of a clothes-drier having increased holding capacity as compared with other driers of its class.

Another object of my invention is the production of a clothes-drier whose various parts are capable of being readily assembled for use and taken apart for shipment, the parts being well adapted for close packing.

Other objects will be apparent from the following description of the construction and op eration of the apparatus.

The invention will first be described in connection with the accompanying drawings and then pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a side elevation of my improved clothes drier hung on the wall of a room, a portion of the staff and operating-cord being broken away and the hangers omitted. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the clothes-drier, illustrating the manner of attaching the hangers. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the upper portion of the carriage with the upper cross tree in position thereon. Fig. 4. is a perspective view of the lower portion of the carriage with the lower cross-tree in position thereon. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section taken on the line w m, Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is an inner view of the front wall of the carriage, showing the vertical channel therein. Fig. 7 is an elevation of one of the hangers on a reduced scale. Fig. Sis a perspective view of the staff-bracket. Figs. 9 and 10 are detail views on a reduced scale, illustrating the modified construction of the hangers.

Referring to the drawings, A is the staff, of any suitable length, preferably square in cross-section.

B is the carriage,which consists of two blocks Serial No. 546,031. (No model.)

channeled on their inner sides, as at b, in such manner as that when placed together, as shown in the drawings, they will embrace the staff. Each block is bifurcated at both its upper and lower ends, as at 1, to receive rollers 2, journaled on pins 3, passed through the respective branches of the bifurcations, and in addition to these bifurcations, and at right angles thereto, the ends of the blocks are cut out, as at 4, so that when the blocks are placed together these cut-out portions 4 will form other bifurcations to receive rollers 5, journaled on pins 6, passed through both blocks in such position that the respective rollers 2 and 5 will be in different planes. By this construction it will be observed the carriage has roller-bearings on all sides of the staif.

C is the upper cross-tree, made of angleiron and provided with ribs 7. In the rear central portion it is formed with a vertical rectangular depression 8, of a size to snugly embrace the carriage, and from the rear vertical web 0 of the cross-tree, at each end of the depression 8 and in line therewith, is formed a rearwardly-extending flange c to afford additional clamping surface, each of said flanges being preferably formed with a strengthening-rib 9, as seen in Fig 5. Through the upper horizontal web 0' of the cross-tree, near the rear edge thereof, is formed a series of holes 10, and along the front edge of this web are formed upwardly-projecting studs 11, arranged in pairs, as shown. In the central portion of the rear web 0 is formed a vertical slot 12, extending from the lower edge to a point near the under side of the upper web 0, and from the front edge of the upper web, in line with said slot 12, depends a lip e in the free end of which is formed a slot 13, as seen in dotted lines in Fig. 3.

D is the lower cross-tree, of the same general shape as the upper one, comprising the webs c and c and the ribs 7, and having the depression 8, the rearwardly-extending flanges 0 the series of holes 10, and the vertical central slot 12. The web 0' is thickened on the under side beneath the holes 10 by integral bosses 14:, the holes 10 being also formed through these bosses, as seen in Fig. 2, for a purpose hereinafter described. From the front central portion of the cross-tree D extends an arm E, in the forward end of which is a rectangular aperture 8, in which is journaled a toothed cam F, said aperture being open in front, as at 16, to admit the operatingcord, as clearly seen in Figs. 2 and 4.

'G are the hangers designed to hold the clothes to be dried. These hangers are made of a single piece of heavy wire bent at one end to form a hook 17, thence running straight a suitable distance to form the lower arm g, then carried upward a suitable distance, then bent downward to double the wire and form a stop 18, then carried straight the length of the arm g to form the upper arm g,and then bent downward at the end to form a pivot 19.

H is the pulley-beam, in the rear end of which is formed a hole 20, the rear side of which is inclined, a hook 21 driven into the wall being adapted to take into the hole 20, the engaging portion of the hook being of a shape corresponding to the shape of the hole 20, all as clearly seen in Fig. 1. In this beam, forward from its rear end sufficiently far to enable the carriage to run clear of the wall, is formed a square socket 22, in which the upper end of the staff A is designed to tightly fit, and from the outer end of the beam is suspended a pulley I.

J is another pulley, whose stemj is provided with a shank j, of less diameter than the stem j, thus leaving a shoulder at 23 adapted to bear against the lip c on the cross-tree C, the free end of this shank being screw-threaded to take into the carriage B when the parts are assembled, the extreme end of the screwthreaded portion being provided with a nut 24:, which works in a groove 25 on the inner side of the carriage, said groove being formed by cutting a rectangular portion out of the abutting edges of the blocks, as clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

K is the staif-bracket for supporting the staff at its lower end. This bracket consists of a base-plate 26, from which rise two plates 27 and 28, the latter being centrally slotted in its upper edge, as at 29. From the innerend of the base-plate depends a bearing-plate 30, centrally slotted from its lower edge, as at 31.

In assembling the parts the upper end of the staff A is inserted in the socket 22 in beam H. The blocks forming the carriage are then brought together and the rollers 5 placed in position, (it being understood that rollers 2 are permanently carried by the blocks forming the carriage,) when crosstrees O and D are forced on, clamping the blocks tightly together. \Vhen this is done, the shank of pul ley J is passed through the lip c and slot 12 of cross-tree O and screwed into the carriage. Then a headed screw 32 is passed through the central slot 12 in the cross-tree D and screwed into the carriage, after which nut 24 is screwed onto the pulley-shank and another nut 83 is placed on the screw 32. The carriage is slipped onto the staff from its lower end, after which a screw 34 is inserted laterally in the lower end of the staff, so that the head will project slightly therefrom. The lower end of the'staff isthen placed between the plates 27 and 28 of bracket K, the pro jecting portion of screw 3% entering the slot 29 in plate 28, and the slotted portion of the bearing-plate 30 is passed over a nail or screw 35, inserted in the wall. Then one end of the operating-cord L is secured to the pulleybeam, passed downward and under pulley J, thence up and over pulley I, its other end depending therefrom. Finally, the hangers G are put in place by first turning them downward, so that their hooks 17 will enter the holes 10 in cross-tree D, the arms 9 meanwhile lying within slots 15 to permit this engagement. Then the hangers are turned up into a horizontal position and their upper arms g are sprung upward far enough to permit their pivots 19 to enter the holes 10 in cross-tree 0, after which the arms 9 are each placed between a pair of the studs 11, which studs pre vent swaying movement of the hangers, and a bracing edect is imparted to the upper arm g" by its pivot bearing against the adjacent rib 7, this latter effect being imparted to the two inner hangers by their pivots bearing against the projection formed by the depression 8. Furthermore, the bosses it, by giving an increased thickness to that portion of the cross-tree D in which the holes 10 are formed, serve to prevent undue play of the hooks 17 on arms g.

' It will be observed that by the construction of the hangers increased holding capacity is afforded, and also that rigidity isimparted to the respective arms by the formation of the stop 18, a stop of some kind being very desirable in order to prevent the clothes on the upper arm from slipping off.

The operation of the apparatus and the manner of taking it apart for storage or shipment will be manifest without further description. It may be well to state, however, that when the carriage is elevated to any desired position the free end of the operating cord will be automatically secured by slip ping it through the opening 16 in arm E and in engagement with the cam F, when the weight of the carriage will cause the cam to be drawn around into tight clamping posi tion.

I believe I am the first to devise a two-part carriage adapted to slide on a staff, the parts of the carriage being clamped together by means of one or more cross-treesdesigned to carry the clothes-hangers or arms, and therefore I do not limit my invention to the use of a plurality of such cross-trees nor to the doublearm ed hangers, as a single cross-tree and differently-constructed hangers might be used and still be within the'scope of my invention. For instance, the upper arm g of the hanger shown and described might be used with the upper cross-tree alone. Again, theiower cross tree could be adapted to carry a series of hangers similar to the lower arm 9 of the hanger shown and described simply by turning such hangers, when in use, out of register with the slots in the cross-tree.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isa 1. In a clothes-drier of the class described, a stafi, a separable two-part carriage adapted to slide thereon, means for clamping the two parts of the carriage together, and a series of hangers carried by said clamping means.

2. In a clothes-drier of the class described, a staff, a separable two-part carriage adapted to slide thereon, a crosstree having a depression in its rear side adapted to tightly embrace the two parts of the carriage, and a series of clothes-hangers designed to pivotally engage the crosstree.

3. In a clothes-drier of the class described, a staff, a separable two-part carriage adapted to slide thereon, an upper erosstree and a lower crosst-ree adapted to clamp the two parts of the carriage together, and a series of hangers carried by said erosstrees, one of the erosstrees being provided with an integral forwardly-proj eotin g arm having an aperture in its front end and a cam journaled in said aperture, for the purposes set forth.

4. In a clothes-drier of the class described, a stafi, a carriage adapted to slide thereon, an upper crosstree and a lower crosstree secured to the carriage, and a series of clothesmeans for preventing accidental upward displacement of the hanger.

5. In a clothes-drier, a stafi, a carriage adapted to slide thereon, an upper crosstree and a lower crosstree secured to the carriage, each comprising a rear vertical web and a horizontal web, the horizontal webs having perforations near their rear edges, the upper crosstree being provided with raised stops in front of its perforations and the lower crosstree having slots in front of its perforations, and a series of clothes-hangers each comprising two integrally-formed parallel arms, one arm adapted to pivot in one of the perforations in the upper crosstree and the other arm adapted for hooked connection with the lower crosstree through one of its perforations.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH J. BISEL.

Witnesses:

HERBERT ALRICH, F. T. FAoEY. 

